Cardiac involvement in Caucasian patients with pulmonary sarcoidosis

Respiratory Research

Table 1 Clinical characteristics of 1017 patients

	Patients with pathologic ECG	Patients with normal ECG
Subjects	166	851
Gender M/F	107/59*	473/378
Age, years^{^}	41 (25–76)	38 (9–78)
Smoker
(never/ever/unknown)	99/67/0	467/370/14
Radiographic stage
0/I/II/III/IV	8/63/57/30/8^##	57/426/273/74/21
Löfgren/non-Löfgren	48/118**	338/513
Alive/deceased/unknown	150/14/2^#	817/31/3

*p < 0.05 compared to the ratio of male/female gender among patients with a normal ECG. ^{^}Age, years at time for diagnosis: values are medians (min – max). ^##p < 0.01 compared to the ratio of stage II-IV among patients with a normal ECG. **p < 0.01 compared to the ratio of LS/non-LS patients with a normal ECG. ). ^#p < 0.05 compared to the ratio of alive/diseased with a normal ECG.

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